DURATION MODELING OF INDIAN LANGUAGES HINDI AND TELUGU

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 197-202

  Krishna, N Sridhar ^a   Murthy, Hema A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

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Indexed keywords

MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION TREES; DATA DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; DURATION MODELLING; DURATION PREDICTIONS; INDIAN LANGUAGES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; REGRESSION TREES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; TREE-BASED;

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EID: 85133465524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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